Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Cynthia12]

People won't believe me, but I have stopped hatching. GASP! For the first time in years. Maybe I will give it a go come spring, but I am done right now. I have puppies I am working with now..two weeks old, and need supplemented feedings. Mom isn't doing too well with keeping enough milk in. At least they are still getting some of hers.

I've heard and heard about the AVC in the water..can you explain some of the benefits. Have to say, I really wonder if it really works for worms. ?? But, if for nothing else, I would use it in their waterers to keep them clean! Does it really help with that??

Edit to say..really Sally...100 chicks? Are you selling them pretty good?

 

[sumi]

Wow, where is everyone?

Sally, I read somewhere if you add ACV to the water you should not add anything else. It's also recommended that you give AVC for 1 week, clean water for 4 weeks, ACV for 1 week... rinse and repeat.

I have a broody sitting on eggs, day 8-9 (I've slipped them under her over a 2-day period). I candled tonight and got my first ever blood ring

Anyway... finally got round to writing an article on hatch failures and incubation problems:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/egg-failure-to-hatch-diagnosing-incubation-problems

I'm going to do a follow up article with more info, but I'm too tired now.

 

[casportpony]

I know this is the exception, not the norm, but I just had an old pea egg (26 days old) hatch in 28 days in record time. Internal pip to hatch in less than 8 hours. It was part of a experiment where I set 42 old/improperly stored eggs in a Janoel 48. It was the only one of 48 that hatched! A few others started, but died very early.

-Kathy

 

[sumi]

Kathy, that sounds like a very interesting experiment! I've been thinking of doing one on hatching eggs after medicating the hens with dewormers, etc, since there is so little info on it. But I somehow don't quite have the heart to do it... A friend of mine hatched some eggs he got from me after I dewormed the flock. Told me he was going to feed it to his pig... I told him NOT to hatch them, but you know what some people are like. He came storming round 3 weeks later screaming and shouting about the eggs, wanting replacements

He refused to admit that he incubated them, so I don't know how bad it was.

 

[casportpony]

Kathy, that sounds like a very interesting experiment! I've been thinking of doing one on hatching eggs after medicating the hens with dewormers, etc, since there is so little info on it. But I somehow don't quite have the heart to do it... A friend of mine hatched some eggs he got from me after I dewormed the flock. Told me he was going to feed it to his pig... I told him NOT to hatch them, but you know what some people are like. He came storming round 3 weeks later screaming and shouting about the eggs, wanting replacements

He refused to admit that he incubated them, so I don't know how bad it was.

Interesting... what do you think happened? Last year I had a late quitter with a deformed leg from a hen that I wormed and I wondered if that was the cause. Had to worm and medicate some this year, too, but no deformities so far.

-Kathy

 

[sumi]

He didn't get any live chicks from the hatch, that I know. He was very upset when he came round, but refused to tell me what happened.

I found a little bit of info online once, the person hatched chicks shortly after deworming his hens and he said the chicks were malformed and the ones that made it to hatch died shortly afterwards. I wish I knew which dewormers are safe, which are not, what medicines are safe, etc... But that would be a hairy experiment.

 

[casportpony]

Here is the chick with the deformed leg.









This was one of four that I lost probably due to humidity being to high.

-Kathy

 

[sumi]

Poor little thing

 

[Sally Sunshine]

People won't believe me, but I have stopped hatching. GASP! For the first time in years. Maybe I will give it a go come spring, but I am done right now. I have puppies I am working with now..two weeks old, and need supplemented feedings. Mom isn't doing too well with keeping enough milk in. At least they are still getting some of hers.

I've heard and heard about the AVC in the water..can you explain some of the benefits. Have to say, I really wonder if it really works for worms. ?? But, if for nothing else, I would use it in their waterers to keep them clean! Does it really help with that??

Edit to say..really Sally...100 chicks? Are you selling them pretty good?

yeppers, its a learning curve because I need to get into business mind and stop being nice! lol

Wow, where is everyone?

Sally, I read somewhere if you add ACV to the water you should not add anything else. It's also recommended that you give AVC for 1 week, clean water for 4 weeks, ACV for 1 week... rinse and repeat.

I have a broody sitting on eggs, day 8-9 (I've slipped them under her over a 2-day period). I candled tonight and got my first ever blood ring

Anyway... finally got round to writing an article on hatch failures and incubation problems:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/egg-failure-to-hatch-diagnosing-incubation-problems

I'm going to do a follow up article with more info, but I'm too tired now.

awesome, thanks!

 

[sumi]

Thank you again, Sally, I really enjoyed this! BYC Member Interview - Sally Sunshine